golden birthday of sorts...Asher is 10 weeks

Baby Asher this is your first "golden birthday" -you should consider having 10 be a favorite number, or 1 or 0.  I mean not everyone is special enough to have such a cool birthday date like yours- 10.10.10.

For your 'birthday' today we tried to take you to see Santa- just for the giggles and a cute picture.  Our Santa at Ridgedale Mall is the most authentic looking and cute Santa around...

Everyone likes to go to this particular one to get their photo taken.  So that's where we went too!

We arrived and got in the back of the line and you were sound asleep my love...

 ...only to discover as we looked around that...

...the lines were insanely long! (It was a 3 hour wait!) -And that's faaarrrrr too long of a wait.

So mommy and daddy decided that this would have to be your first picture "with" santa this year. Mommy held you and if you look close you'll see santa- there in the back. Maybe we'll try again a different day.

You must have been worn out from all the activity, when we got home this is what happened...

Your highlights this week were:

• You are tracking sounds and voices more.
• You look at us and respond, smile and giggle from across the room now.
• You have found your little screaming voice- you don't use it often, only a squeak when you're frustrated or while you're super excited.  We love this development when you're happy. 
• We tried to go sit on Santa's lap. You went Christmas shopping (sleeping) with us!
• You really liked watching (really) the Polar Express with daddy and mommy last night.
• You love all kinds of slings/carriers (mostly the Maya Wrap, Moby and Ergo), and being held really close. 
• We tried putting you to bed at 8:30pm with a dream feed at 10:30 but you woke at 3 and 6 and 8am. So we went right back to bed time at 9:20-ish and you sleep until 6am to eat and back to sleep until 8:30am.  We'll stick with that routine for a while longer, 'cuz you do so well with it.  Maybe soon you'll want to go to bed a little earlier.
• Bath time still quiets you right down. You kick and look around; you really like being in the water Little Muffin. Here's some pictures from last night, right when you got out of the water. In a couple of them you are looking at your favorite black mirror. Also, you usually have your fists right up by your chin (you were positioned like that inside, so it must be comfortable to you).

It's almost here... your FIRST Christmas! We will be heading to Iowa to be with family.

Son, we're very excited to celebrate Jesus' birth with you this week! We pray that one day you will come to know Jesus in a personal way, and trust in him alone for forgiveness of your sins; that's why He came to earth Asher, to die, to pay the price for our ugly sin. And if your trust in Him to redeem you, you'll live eternally with Him! He loves you so much baby boy! WE love you so much!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FIRSTBORN!